Three Key Requirements for Any Future Network

Secure and Dedicated Bandwidth

Secure and Dedicated Bandwidth

Increased connectivity and mobility requirements have driven a layered/parallel network growth creating management, visibility, performance, and security challenges. Consider infrastructure that delivers assured and secure bandwidth for enterprise-critical applications, and has the capabilities to support cloud-based application access, and more device connectivity than planned.

Increased connectivity and mobility requirements have driven a layered/parallel network growth creating management, visibility, performance, and security challenges. Consider infrastructure that delivers assured and secure bandwidth for enterprise-critical applications, and has the capabilities to support cloud-based application access, and more device connectivity than planned.

Future-Ready Infrastructure

Future-Ready Infrastructure

A future-ready network is one that can address adds and changes relatively seamlessly and without the need to disturb the enterprise to add media for delivery. In order to ensure a future-ready network, careful consideration needs to be made on your cable plant, active network elements, and overall network design. Specifically, active electronics with modular service support, network design that allows easily reconfigured or added Ethernet drops, and a media that supports assured, secure, and virtually unlimited bandwidth are all requirements for a future-ready network.

A future-ready network is one that can address adds and changes relatively seamlessly and without the need to disturb the enterprise to add media for delivery. In order to ensure a future-ready network, careful consideration needs to be made on your cable plant, active network elements, and overall network design. Specifically, active electronics with modular service support, network design that allows easily reconfigured or added Ethernet drops, and a media that supports assured, secure, and virtually unlimited bandwidth are all requirements for a future-ready network.

Cost-Effective Deployment and Management

Cost-Effective Deployment and Management

Your network infrastructure should be built to last… similar to the expectations of your base building infrastructure. Additionally, your network infrastructure should be able to scale to address new users, applications, protocols, and services easily without the need to run more cable. Careful selection, provisioning, design, and planning will ensure a cost-effective and easily managed network.

Your network infrastructure should be built to last… similar to the expectations of your base building infrastructure. Additionally, your network infrastructure should be able to scale to address new users, applications, protocols, and services easily without the need to run more cable. Careful selection, provisioning, design, and planning will ensure a cost-effective and easily managed network.

What the WAN Means for Your LAN

What the WAN Means for Your LAN

How the Evolution of the Wide Area Network Is Changing Local Area Network Infrastructure Requirements

In the early to mid-2000s, the traditional software model began to move to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-based delivery, which began to shift local IT thinking in how they support end users. As storage and application left local servers and began to be hosted in data centers, less equipment and on-premise device management was needed, but more emphasis was needed on ISP service delivery and infrastructure ability to handle the speed and payload needed for applications to be supported.

That trend has continued, virtually eliminating the software-in-a-box delivery to an entirely cloud-hosted model. This change in local delivery to data center-hosted and delivered service, coupled with mobile device proliferation and rich media content consumption, drove data center expansion and the need to architect the data center for faster delivery moving from 10Gbps to now 40 and 100Gbps.

As the core network infrastructure changes so too must the local area network, if end users and the overall enterprise are to receive safe, reliable, and high-quality service for all their application needs. To receive the benefits of the evolution, data centers moving to 40 and 100Gbps require a fiber-rich environment in the LAN as well. Whether you are a hospital that requires assured and secure bandwidth for your ER telemetry system or an enterprise that is conducting live HD video conferencing between its remote product management and development teams – latency, capacity limitations, and an inability to ensure dedicated bandwidth at a port are serious considerations in designing and building your network infrastructure.

Fiber vs. Copper

Copper Unshielded Twisted-Pair at 10G and Beyond

Copper Unshielded Twisted-Pair at 10G and Beyond

If you plan to deploy or migrate your network to 10G – and in your horizontal network, you’ll want to start thinking about it – don't let those bulky copper cables fool you. Complex to design with and to install, they create more issues than they resolve at 10G and beyond. The real facts are: unshielded copper twisted-pair at higher data rates, including 10G, is overcomplicated, overweight, overheated, and overcapacity.

If you plan to deploy or migrate your network to 10G – and in your horizontal network, you’ll want to start thinking about it – don't let those bulky copper cables fool you. Complex to design with and to install, they create more issues than they resolve at 10G and beyond. The real facts are: unshielded copper twisted-pair at higher data rates, including 10G, is overcomplicated, overweight, overheated, and overcapacity.

Project Spotlight

Project Spotlight

One of the largest college football stadiums in the U.S., the newly renovated home of the Texas A&M Aggies, now includes a state-of-the art optical fibre infrastructure that delivers increased capacity and more reliable wireless service. ONE Wireless enables more than 100,000 fans to call, text, and tweet about being at the big game – all at the same time.

Additional Network Considerations

What the WAN Means for Your LAN

How the Evolution of the Wide Area Network Is Changing Local Area Network Infrastructure Requirements

What the WAN Means for Your LAN

Starting in the 2000s, the traditional software model began to move to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-based delivery causing storage and applications to transfer from local servers to data centers.

This change in delivery methods, coupled with mobile device proliferation and rich media content consumption, drove data center expansion and the need to architect the data center for faster delivery moving from 10Gbps to now 40Gbps and 100Gbps.

This shift requires a fiber-rich LAN to minimize latency and capacity/bandwidth limitations.

Future Network Capacity Requirements

Future Network Capacity Requirements

This white paper examines the current and future bandwidth requirements in both hospitals and hotels, and how the growing adoption of wireless applications are impacting current and future network requirements.